Friday, April 1st 2011

6:00am
Movie: "The Bad News Bears" (1976)
Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

8:00am
Movie: "The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training" (1977)
William Devane, Jackie Earl Haley
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.

9:40am
Movie: "Field of Dreams" (1989)
Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come.

11:30am
WKRP in Cincinnati 2.03 - "Baseball" (1979)
Les, while never being able to participate in sports as a child, has dreams of greatness on the baseball diamond. He accepts a challenge from rival station WPIG for WKRP to play them in a softball game. Rivalries and hatred between the two stations rear their ugly heads.

noon
Bay City Blues 1.01 - "Pilot" (1983)
Manager Joe Rohner, like his players on the minor-league Bay City (California) Bluebirds, dreams of baseball's big leagues; team owner Ray Holtz dreams of profits; and the lonely banker's wife Sunny dreams of Rohner. In this debut episode, two players and their wives finds that pressures on the field spill over into the domestic life they share under the same roof.


1:00pm
Corner Gas 2.17 - "Slow Pitch" (2005)

1:30pm
The Simpsons 3.17 - "Homer At The Bat" (1992)
Homer and his co-workers qualify the plant's softball team for the league final, but Mr. Burns hires 9 professional MLB players to win a $1 million bet.

2:00pm
The Simpsons 18.18 - "The Boys of Bummer" (2007)
Bart becomes the most hated person in Springfield after he is the goat in a championship baseball game, and Homer new job as a mattress salesman ruins his and Marge's sex life.

2:30pm
The Simpsons 2.05 - "Dancin' Homer" (1990)
Homer's heckling of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team's mascot during one of their games leads to his appointment as the new mascot.

3:00pm
Movie: "Bull Durham" (1988)
Kevin Costner, Susan Surandon
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

5:00pm
Diff'rent Strokes 7.13 - "Baseball Blues" (1985)
Sam persuades a reluctant Mr. Drummond to become the coach of his bad news baseball team and then regrets it after he winds up on the bench.


5:30pm
M*A*S*H  9.06 - "A War For All Seasons" (1980)
On New Year's Eve, the staff looks back on the highlights of 1951: The doctors invent an artificial kidney machine; Mulcahy plants a garden; Margaret takes up knitting; and Klinger and Winchester bet on which baseball team will win the pennant.

6:00pm
NHL Hockey
Apr 1st 2011
Philadelphia Flyers  2 @  4 New Jersey Devils

9:00pm
MLB Baseball
Apr 1st 2011
Twins 3 @  13 Blue Jays

11:00pm
Movie: "April Fool's Day" (1986)
Deborah Foreman, Jay Baker
A group of nine college students staying at a friend's remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool's day weekend.


12:30am
Movie: "War of the Worlds" (1953)
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson



2:00am
Movie: "The Bank Job" (2008)
Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.

4:00am
MLB Baseball
Apr 1st 2011
Astros 4 @ 5 Phillies

6:00am